Hello fine people!
Its been a while since my last post… over the weekend I played in my local games workshops 40k tournament called Iron General. Which I won “Best Painted” for my Iron Hands. Which to be honest I was a bit surprised about because its a black army and typically its difficult to make black armies look good, so it was pleasing to win best painted. I came 5th overall too, which was good to. It was a bit of a rude army list, with 10 Terminators who were accompanied by Lysander and a Librarian with Gate… so yeah… Those boys can dish out some punishment, but at 760 points, they’d want to…
Anyways, thats taken up my weekend, along with other social commitments so no time for painting. Now, onto the board. I have to confess, I was a little disheartened with how this board was beginning to turn out, it wasnt quite what my minds eye had pictured and it didnt seem to be heading in the direction that I wanted it, so finding motivation to paint it was difficult. However on Tuesday night, I decided just to get on with it and put in 4-5 solid hrs of work and by the end of it I was really pleased at how it was coming along and my enthusiasm for this project was renewed.
Ok, some pics
Ok, so this is a good money shot and will give you a good overall impression of how its going to look competed. Keep in mind that the photo was taken with my iPhone and because the board is massive my painting lamps dont really cut the mustard to light it properly, but you get the idea. Now as I write this I have to say that I actually went on and finished it, however I want to wait till its daylight so I can take some proper pictures of it with the Sharks on it.
I’m really pleased with this area of the model. Which ironically was the area I was most displeased with in the beginning. However its really come up nicely and looks in my opinion fantastic. Again, the light is crap but in a few days I’ll take some proper pics for you to see
There is some really awesome detail on this model, its one of those models that you’ll be painting away on and then see something you hadnt noticed before. An example of which is if you look at the kill marking some soldier has scratched into the wall on the left hand side as you look at it of the door.
Ok, thats it for the time being, I’ll take some proper shots of it most likely on Friday, or Saturday morning depending on light and time. So until then!
Thanks for looking
John
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